On May 5, 5:22 am, Peter Clark
wrote:
On Sat, 05 May 2007 08:04:37 -0400, Ron Natalie
wrote:





Alex M. (Mooney in California) wrote:
I ahve been reading about Garmin G600 "galss cockpit" for a while
butthe information has been VERY limited.
I am thinking about upgrading my M20S but have hd problems even
estimating potential costs.

Any pointers here ? Thanks a lot in advance

Has anybody actually seen one of these delivered. Almost four
years ago when the G1000's were announced I asked Garmin about
retrofit products (I ended up sinking a lot of money into a
more conventional panel: GNS480, MX20, STEC 55X, and steam
style HSI). They didn't have plans then. At Oshkosh they
announced the 900x (homebuilts) and 600 (certified) with
estimated availability dates in Janurary (07) but I've
heard nothing (the WAAS upgrade for the 430/530 was a bigger
story)).

AFAIK, the G600 hasn't been certified yet. The Garmin website's
product release announcment says "anticipated availability in
mid-2007" and quotes an suggested retail price of $29,772, which
includes "the GDU 620 display/control unit, GRS 77 AHRS, GDC 74A
digital air data computer, GMU 44 tri-axial magnetometer, and GTP 59
temp probe."

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But the product brochure says "certified on hundreds of airframes".
That was interesting to me because its hard to beleive the FAA would
blanket approve lots of airframes for a change this massive. I assume
the installation allows for the removal of the existing equipment, all
of which is part of the required equipment on the type certificate.
Usually the FAA isn't so quick to issue STC's allowing previously
required equipment to be discarded.

-Robert